Where are the Protests?

Over the last few years, we have seen countless protests against what is described as Israel's "occupation" of Palestinian territory. The defensive wall that the Israelis built to prevent terrorists from either infiltrating or shooting into Israel proper has been the subject of sit ins against "apartheid" on many college campuses. When Israel fires back at missile sites from which terrorists are launching rockets against Israeli civilians, Israel is criticized for "non-proportional responses" or occasionally for "genocide" even though the only ones hurt are the terrorists themselves. Leftist groups and college campuses have been hot beds of this supposed outrage over Israel and events in the Middle East.

My question is this: where are these protesters now when the Syrian government is slaughtering its people day after day. In the last three months, more people by far have been killed by the Syrian government than the total number who have died over the last 35 years in the West Bank and Gaza. Innocent civilians are being killed indiscriminately by the Assad regime for the sole reason of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Mourners at funerals are routinely gunned down. But there are no protests about this her in the USA. No one from CAIR is speaking out against this senseless slaughter by a Muslim regime against other Muslims. No one at Harvard is lobbying for that university to disinvest from Syria or companies that do business there. No one at Berkeley is sitting in to show solidarity with the innocent civilians of Homs. Where the hell are they? Why is there no protest?

The answer is really rather simple. All over the world, the countries governed by leftists are supporting the Assad regime in its one-sided battle with the Syrian people. Venezuela is actually shipping fuel to Syria in order to undermine the sanctions meant to slow the attacks by Assad and friends. Cuba has spoken out in strong support for Assad. China used its veto at the UN in order to prevent any resolution from passing the Security Council which might lead to a cessation of hostilities. If the mega-lefties are supporting Assad the mass murderer, then the stooges of the left on college campuses and elsewhere around America have to do so as well. Assad is not indiscriminately killing civilians; soon the left will tell us how he is culling undesireables from Syria's population.

In truth, this is a silence which can only be described as defeaning. These phonies who use the media to play up stories that fit their political aims do not care about anything other than advancing their own path to power.